Franklin Pleasant Bush

Brief Life History of Franklin Pleasant

When Franklin Pleasant Bush was born on 10 April 1882, in Pedee, Polk, Oregon, United States, his father, Pleasant Gentry Bush, was 48 and his mother, Arminta Dorman Bainbridge, was 42. He married Dovie Ann Batchelar on 25 June 1905, in Pedee, Polk, Oregon, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 daughters. He lived in Suver, Polk, Oregon, United States in 1900 and Salt Creek, Polk, Oregon, United States in 1930. He died on 25 June 1942, in Independence, Polk, Oregon, United States, at the age of 60, and was buried in IOOF Cemetery, Independence, Polk, Oregon, United States.

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Family Time Line

Franklin Pleasant Bush
1882–1942
Dovie Ann Batchelar
1886–1955
Marriage: 25 June 1905
Mildred Leona Bush
1907–1968
Golda Frances Bush
1909–1983
Irene Maude Bush
1913–1956
Marcella Iris Bush
1919–2005

Sources (17)

  • Frank P Bush in household of Arminta D Bush, "United States Census, 1900"
  • Frank P Bush, "Oregon, Center for Health Statistics, Birth Records, 1903-1918"
  • Frank Plesant Bush, "United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918"

World Events (8)

1886

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1886 · Giving Working Men a Union

The largest union group in the United States during the first half of the 20th century. It still exists today but merged with The Congress of Industrial Organization.

1898 · War with the Spanish

After the explosion of the USS Maine in the Havana Harbor in Cuba, the United States engaged the Spanish in war. The war was fought on two fronts, one in Cuba, which helped gain their independence, and in the Philippines, which helped the US gain another territory for a time.

Name Meaning

English: topographic name for someone who lived by a bushy area or thicket, from Middle English bush(e) ‘bush’ (probably from Old Norse buskr, or an unrecorded Old English busc).

Americanized form (translation into English) of German Busch .

Americanized form of Czech and Slovak Buš, Búš (see Bus ).

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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